Walter C. Hormell b. 13 May 1870 Pennsylvania, United States d. Apr 1960 Brownsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States: Tangled Roots

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Name	Walter C. Hormell
Born	13 May 1870	Pennsylvania, United States [1]
Gender	Male
Died	Apr 1960	Brownsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States [2]
Buried	Apr 1960	Brownsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States [2]
Buried	Address: Redstone Cemetery
Person ID	I7104	TangledRoots
Last Modified	11 Apr 2021

Father	Nathan P. Hormell, b. 10 Apr 1834, Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States , d. 15 Mar 1900, Brownsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States (Age 65 years)
Mother	Elizabeth Cleghorn, b. 1845, Lawrence, Lawrence County, Ohio, United States , d. 16 Feb 1924, Brownsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States (Age 79 years)
Married	18 Sep 1867	Knox County, Ohio, United States
Family ID	F2893	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 1 Elizabeth Acklin, b. 10 Apr 1870, Pennsylvania, United States , d. 10 Oct 1918, Redstone, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States (Age 48 years)

Married Y [3]

Children

	1. Sara Hormell, b. 13 Dec 1894, Brownsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States , d. 30 Mar 1959, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States (Age 64 years)
	2. John Graham Hormell, b. 15 Sep 1896, Pennsylvania, United States , d. 9 Sep 1927, Brownsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States (Age 30 years)

Last Modified 16 Jan 2022

Family ID F2896 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Family 2	Elinor Jackel, b. 1877, d. 23 Sep 1941 (Age 64 years)
Last Modified	16 Jan 2022
Family ID	F2895	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Notes

Newspaper Article
When Eugene Mitchener and Walter Hormell sold shoes in the Neck as Mitchener & Hormell they carried bicycles as a sideline. It was the era of bicycle racing and the starting tape for the endurance run to Little Washington was right in front of their store. I have watched the starts from my father's office window across the street. Bob West, son of Frank West, the cooper, was my cycling hero.

It has taken me many years to learn that Gene Mitchener and Walter Hormell were brothers-in-law. Gene's wife was Walter's sister. Oddly, her given name was Gene. She was daughter to Nathan Hormell of the Washington county Hormells. She and Walter were Nathan's only children. Harrison Hormell, who kept a men's clothing store a door or so south, was Walter's uncle. I often saw Harrison Hormell arrive for work on horseback. Burleigh Gordon, his stableman, would meet him at the store and ride the horse back to the house.

The name Hormell has an interesting history. It derived gradually from that of the French ancestor who settled four miles south and west of Brownsville in 1789. his name was Jacob Hor Mell. On his tract he built a one-room log cabin, but the modesty of his abode didn't keep him from giving his estate a name. It was Garland. Jaco Hor Mell lived alone in the cabin for eight years. Then, at the age of 60, he married, in 1797, Jane Miller.

From that union stemmed all the Hormells of the Brownsville region. Hor Mell became Hormell. this transition is told me by Howard Dusenberry, of Newell. His wife is granddaughter to John Hormell and great great granddaughter to the founder.

As far as I know, the Hormell clan were all Washington county and old Bridgeport people with the exception of Walter. Born in 1870, Walter married Elizabeth Acklin, of the North Side Acklins. They had two children, Sarah and John, the latter known to the boys on Brownsville Hill as Buddy. They lived in the ancient brick house at Front and Third. This is the house once occupied by Dr. C. C. Reichard, father of the late Dr. Lewis N. Reichard. It was in that house that Isaac Reichard, known as "Cap", after his grandfather, Capt. I. C. Woodward, died of a gunshot wound received while hunting on his grandfather's farm south of Bridgeport.

When on consults telephone books of larger cities, one finds a few Hormels but rarely the Brownsville spelling. This suggests that the leap from Hor Mell to Hormell belongs to the special category of foreign names so if one speaks Hor Mell aloud one gets the notion that the accent on Hormell should have been on the second syllable. Brownsville usage placed it on the first. [Source: "And That Was Brownsville" by McCready Huston, Brownsville, author and newspaperman]